Uh, the Marianas Islands are in the far western Pacific, only 1350 miles from Indonesia as opposed to 10,000 miles from Chile.
And the Chamorros CAME from Indonesia (and Malaysia & the Phillipines, some 4,000 years ago), and retained contact with other island groups in that part of the world.... whence they obtained (SE Asia, naturally) chickens.
So ALL that this entire inane post of yours tells us is that SE Asian chickens were present in SE Asia & the surrounding islands.
GASP! Alert the newsmedia! Call Gavin Menzies!
Or better yet, have a nice cup of tea before settling down to digging up something actually relevant to the topic under discussion.
Kenuchelover.
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> The first few weeks in the Pacific were
> uneventful. The fleet ran north parallel to the
> Chilean coast until they picked up the Peruvian
> Drift from astern and the Westerlies from abeam.
> By the middle of the month Magellan altered
> course to the west-northwest as he neared the
> thirteenth parallel hoping to sight the coast of
> Asia. This was an unfortunate choice and the ships
> sailed for weeks without any sight of land. Food
> stocks rotted and dwindled, and six weeks out from
> the Strait of Magellan his men began to die of
> scurvy. By mid-January over a third of the men
> were so weak they could not walk, and water was
> rationed to a single sip a day. Finally on January
> 25 land was sighted and Magellan named this small
> island St. Paul's (probably Pukapuka, the most
> northern of the Tuamotus). Magellan made another
> unfortunate choice when departing this island on
> January 28, for he set sail away from the
> archipelagos of the Pacific, setting a course of
> west north-west. They sailed on and the voyage
> became more and more arduous. By March 4th the
> Trinidad had no more food, nineteen men had died,
> twenty were too weak to stand, and less than a
> dozen were able to do any work at all. By the
> evening of March 5 the situation seemed hopeless
> until land was spotted. They landed on the
> Marianas but were very quickly surrounded by an
> armada of canoes filled with indigenous people,
> the Chamorros, fully armed with clubs, spears, and
> shields. Crossbows were fired and islanders were
> killed. The Chamorros retreated. Magellan then had
> the village bombed by his cannon. He led a landing
> party to pillage the remains of the village
> filling their butts with water and taking
> everything edible: coconuts, yams, chickens, pigs,
> rice, and bananas. That night the Chamorros
> returned in hundreds of canoes but the winds
> strengthened and the Europeans sailed away. For
> then next couple of days the ships sailed on,
> stopping at islands along the way to resupply.
> Magellan decided to continue to the Philippines
> and not to the Spice Islands that captive
> Chamorros had told him were within a few days
> sailing.